Dennis Owns the Letters Page!
Well not quite, but the Border Mail has, two days in a row, published a letter from my fellow Greens candidate Dennis Black.
Only one letter seems to have made it to the Border Mail’s ever incomplete website, it addresses some of the climate change “skeptics” (ie delusionists) who have appeared on the Letter’s page recently.
The planet has reached the point where our business-as-usual approach is not a viable option to protect ourselves and the other species that are our fellow travellers.
“We told you so” 10 years down the track will not be much consolation. Serious, effective action is essential now.
Sums up the problem for us perfectly. We don’t want to be right. We don’t want climate change to be real, we don’t want to be sitting here in ten years saying “well, told ya so”.
We need effective action now, from all institutions, all levels of government, and all members of society. We need effective action, not denial, if we are to secure a future for humanity on planet Earth.
I hope that my passion and concern on this issue came across at this mornings Chamber of Commerce breakfast. In possibly the last function for the campaign, Dennis and I once again confronted the wall of silence and tried to raise the issue of climate change.
I only hope that Dennis’s letters are evidence of us making the odd crack in that wall.
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We haven’t had a single letter about the election in the paper over here. Usually there are a few (about me!) but this time I decided to keep out of the news. Time will tell if it worked.
well, it’s only a few days now.
I thought BM had made a mistake. So well done Dennis!
Proof that some of the candidates running for Wodonga can string together a sentence, a paragraph and a logical argument.
Dennis owns what??? The letters page???
I’ll tell ya what Dennis owns. After he shuts his eyes really tight for 5 minutes but begins describing what he sees after the 2nd minute, now THAT he can call his own.
Good luck for the count, Kieran. When is yours actually taking place? The VEC is not counting Alpine’s until Sunday, which is strange, as the official election date is November 29 for ALL councils. It shouldn’t be called an ‘election date’ though if they don’t count the votes!
I’m told we might know on Sunday, but that it will be officially announced on Monday.